Competition record
Cendyn
Deep profile · 2 linked library matters
Cendyn sells the Rainmaker pricing software at the center of the hotel cases. The Atlantic City claims are live. The Las Vegas claims are dismissed.
Overview
Cendyn is a hotel-technology company. Its Rainmaker product recommends room rates. Selling software is ordinary. The antitrust question is whether the product became a hub for exchanging nonpublic data among competing hotels.
The Third Circuit's July 29, 2026 decision revived the Atlantic City claims and described the data-sharing and adherence allegations as enough to proceed. A rehearing request was denied on October 2, 2026.
Gibson v. Cendyn, the Las Vegas case, was dismissed and is not the live file. A vendor can win one case and still face another on different facts.
Competition footprint
The alleged hub is the software plus the nonpublic inputs hotels were said to contribute.
Courts have split these hotel-software cases on how much rival data actually moved through the tool.
Cendyn is a defendant, not the hotel setting the rack rate.
Consumer & business angle
Hotels are the paying customers of the software. Guests pay the room rate that comes out the other side.
A hotel that wants a revenue system still has other vendors. The case is about this one's alleged use, not a ban on revenue management.
What to watch
- The Atlantic City remand.
- Whether other Rainmaker cases borrow the Third Circuit's pleading standard.
Markets
hotel revenue software · hotel rooms · revenue-management software · las vegas hotel rooms
Also known as: rainmaker
Conduct themes
Linked cases in the library
Atlantic City room-rate algorithm
US · 2023– · ongoing · 6 minA federal appeals court put the Atlantic City hotel-algorithm case back on track in July 2026 and refused a rehearing in October. It is live again. The Las Vegas version of the claim stayed dismissed.
Outcome: The case is back for litigation after the appeal. There is no trial verdict. A similar Las Vegas case, Gibson v. Cendyn, remains dismissed.
Las Vegas hotel algorithm
US · 2023–2025 · dismissed · 6 minThe Las Vegas hotel-algorithm case is over. Dismissal was affirmed in 2025.
Outcome: The case is dismissed.